{"product_id":"i-married-a-communist","title":"I Married a Communist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGripping. . . . A masterly, often unnerving blend of tenderness, harshness, insight, and wit.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story. . . . The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Philip Roth is an amazing writer. . . . I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps a classic for all time,\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e tells of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger in 1930s Newark, becomes a bigtime 1940s radio star, and is destroyed in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s. In his heyday--when he was a zealous, bullying supporter of \"progressive\" political causes--Ira marries Hollywood silent-film star Eve Frame. Their honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as \"an American taking his orders from Moscow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge is a brilliant portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch, when anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003629318333,"sku":"BS-TC0-499379","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780063499379-HD.jpg?v=1786890747","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/i-married-a-communist","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}